Category: Jensifer

After three months in Athens as a volunteer with Hellenic Youth Participation, my time is now up. Having spent my last weekend in Thessaloniki to get an experience of the second largest city of Greece, I am now doing my last week. It is a weird feeling. Since uprooting after three months requires some preparation,…

It is a funny feeling when new volunteers arrive. It is people you will likely spend a lot of time with both professionally and privately, so it is important that you get along. Additionally, new volunteers generate memories of the feelings experienced when you yourself initially arrived. Recalling the overwhelming feeling of arriving in Syntagma,…

Being a volunteer has both advantages and disadvantages. It gives you the opportunity of getting experience in different fields, which you would otherwise not have had the opportunity of trying out. It allows you to meet a lot of passionate people from around the world. It is also an opportunity to obtain some valuable experience,…

I wouldn’t consider myself inexperienced or naive. I have lived in a lot of cities all around the world. However, Athens is hardly like anything I have every experienced before. After having lived here for a little more than a month our relationship is quickly developing. Growing closer and closer, we are starting to get…

Two spanish, an italian, an hungarian and a cypriot walk into an Athenian bar

This blog is dedicated to the EVS experience shared by these five guys who moved from their homes to the vibrant city of Αθήνα. On how they immersed themselves in the daily life of the Greek people and what they have learned from this journey.